Shakira is having fun with being “husband-less” following her cut up from Gerard Piqué.
Throughout an look on the Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, the Colombian singer, 47, spoke about being “free” to make her new album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. The document marks Shakira’s first album in seven years, following her and Piqué’s 2022 breakup after 11 years collectively. They share sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9.
“I have been placing out music right here and there however it was actually onerous for me to place collectively a physique of labor,” Shakira mentioned of why the discharge is going on now.
“I did not have time. It was the husband-factor. Now I am husband-less. Yeah, the husband was dragging me down. Now I am free. Now I can really work,” she continued.
The musician additionally revealed that the document’s title in Spanish interprets to “Girls now not cry,” including to Fallon, “It is males’s flip now. For too lengthy we’ve been despatched to cry with a script in our fingers and with out an finish simply because we’re girls. We’ve got to hide our ache in entrance of our youngsters, in entrance of society.”
“We’ve got to heal in a sure method. And I do not assume anybody is meant to inform us find out how to heal. Nobody is meant to inform a She-wolf find out how to lick her wounds,” the “Hips Do not Lie” singer added.
Fallon confirmed viewers the emerald, ruby, diamond and sapphire vinyl covers of the 16-track launch as Shakira defined the way it was made. “I used to be uncooked. I used to be coping with a number of stuff. I felt at occasions with a knife between my tooth,” she mentioned. “I used to be selecting up the items of myself from the ground. I used to be making an attempt to rebuild myself. Music was the glue.”
She added that she was “reworking ache and anger and frustration” into “creativity, productiveness, energy and resilience” whereas engaged on the document.
“The resilience of a diamond, you recognize? In order that’s why I picked the metaphor of the dear stones, due to the resilience that us girls have immediately when we’ve to face adversity,” the star shared.
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Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran marks Shakira’s twelfth studio album launch, following 2017’s El Dorado.
The brand new document contains eight new songs, a brand new remix and 7 previously-released smash hit singles together with “Music Periods Vol. 53” with Bizarrap, “TQG” with Karol G, “Monotonía” with Ozuna, “Te Felicito” with Rauw Alejandro and “Copa Vacía” with Manuel Turizo. It additionally contains her new collab with Cardi B, “Puntería.”